Appel: TSD 2013
Thierry Hamon
thierry.hamon at UNIV-PARIS13.FR
Tue Feb 12 21:42:29 UTC 2013
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:56:58 +0100
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TSD 2013 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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Sixteenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2013)
Plzen (Pilsen), Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2013
http://www.tsdconference.org
TSD NEWS
The TSD conference fee was significantly reduced. It is organized in
parallel with SPECOM.
ABOUT CONFERENCE
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences,
University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno. This year the conference is organized in
parallel with the 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer
(SPECOM). The conference is supported by International Speech
Communication Association (ISCA).
Venue: Plzen (Pilsen), angelo Hotel (city center), Czech Republic
TSD SERIES
TSD series have evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over
the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag
in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD
proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major citation
databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and
spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized
lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech,
handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of
feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual
processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text
labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
disambiguation, plagiarism detection)
Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine
translation, natural language understanding, question-answering
strategies, assistive technologies)
Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
dialogues)
Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and
personality modelling)
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event will be English. However, papers on
processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
Eneko Agirre, Spain
Genevieve Baudoin, France
Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
Darja Fiser, Slovenia
Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, GB
Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
Ales Horak, Czech Republic
Eduard Hovy, USA
Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
Diana McCarthy, UK
Hermann Ney, Germany
Elmar Noeth, Germany
Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
Karel Pala, Czech Republic
Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
Fabio Pianesi, Italy
Maciej Piasecki, Poland
Jan Pomikalek, Czech Republic
Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
James Pustejovsky, USA
Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
Anna Rumshisky, USA
Milan Rusko, Slovakia
Stefan Steidl, Germany
Pavel Skrelin, Russia
Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
Georg Stemmer, Germany
Marko Tadic, Croatia
Tamas Varadi, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine
Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
Yorick Wilks, GB
Victor Zakharov, Russia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral
presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be
presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.One day of the
conference will be dedicated to tutorials and workshops.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Pilsen will allow
additional informal interactions. Details about the social event will be
available on the web page.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation
format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.
Papers submitted to TSD 2013 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.
As the reviewing is blind, the paper should not include authors' name
and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be
avoided. Instead, use citations, such as "Smith previously showed
(Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above
are determined to be rejected without review.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX (plain)
or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of
the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. Authors
using a MS Word-compatible software for the final version must use the
LNCS template for MS Word and within the submit process ask the
Proceedings Editors to convert the paper to the LaTeX format. For this
service a service-and-license fee of CZK 1500 will be levied
automatically.
The paper format for the review has to be either the PDF or PostScript
file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance,
speakers will receive further information on submitting their
camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the
final paper format see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Authors are also invited to present actual projects, a developed
software or interesting materials relevant to the topics of the
conference. Speakers who have prepared a demonstration should provide
an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not
appear in the conference proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 31, 2013 ............ Submission of full papers
May 12, 2013 .............. Notification of acceptance
June 9, 2013 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
September 1-5, 2013 ....... Conference date
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings
that will be made available on CD to participants at the time of the
conference.
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It
includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee
breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event
admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as
possible, meals during the conference, the accommodation, and the
conference trip are not included.
Full participant:
early registration by June 9, 2013 - CZK 8.200 (approx. 320 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2013 - CZK 9.400 (approx. 370 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 10.000 (approx. 390 EUR)
Student (reduced):
early registration by June 9, 2013 - CZK 7.000 (approx. 280 EUR)
late registration by August 1, 2013 - CZK 8.400 (approx. 330 EUR)
on-site registration - CZK 8.900 (approx. 350 EUR)
The payment may be refunded up until August 15, at the cost of CZK
1.500. No refund is possible after this date. All costs are in Czech
Crowns (Czech Koruna, CZK), see e.g. http://www.xe.com/ucc/ for the
current exchange rate.
At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee
by June 9, 2013 for their paper to be included in the conference
proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular
registration fee. The additional paper and page charge is CZK 1000 per
page. Any additional paper is treated as extra pages. An extra page
charge is CZK 1000 per page. An author with more than one paper pays the
additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid
the full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to
contact the organising committee for clarification. As in previous
years, we will do our best to ensure grants for the prospective TSD
participants from economically less powerful countries, especially the
countries of the former Soviet Union and its satellites. By now we are
negotiating with our partner supporting organisations about the form and
amount of the grants.
LOCATION
The city of Plzen (Pilsen) is situated in Western Bohemia at the
confluence of four rivers. With its 170,000 inhabitants it is the fourth
largest city in the Czech Republic and an important industrial,
commercial, and administrative centre. It is also the capital of the
Pilsen Region. In addition, it has been selected as the European capital
of culture for 2015 by the Council of the European Union.
Pilsen is well-known for its brewing tradition. The trademark
Pilsner-Urquell has a good reputation all over the world thanks to the
traditional recipe, high quality hops and good groundwater. Beer lovers
will also appreciate a visit to the Brewery Museum or the Brewery
itself.
Apart from its delicious beer, Pilsen hides lots of treasures in its
core. The city can boast the second largest synagogue in Europe. The
dominant of the old part of the city center is definitely the
13th-century Gothic cathedral featuring the highest tower in Bohemia
(102.34 m). It is possible to go up and admire the view of the city. Not
far from the cathedral is the splendid Renaissance Town Hall from 1558
and plenty of pleasant cafes and pubs are situated on and around the
main square.
There is also the beautiful Pilsen Historical Underground - under the
city center, a complex network of passageways and cellars can be
found. They are about 14 km long and visitors can see the most beautiful
part of this labyrinth during the tour. It is recommended to visit the
City Zoological Garden, having the second largest space for bears in
Europe and keeping several Komodo dragons, large lizards which exist
only in a few zoos in the world.
The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen provides a variety of courses
for both Czech and international students. It is the only institution of
higher education in this part of the country which prepares students for
careers in engineering (electrical and mechanical), science (computer
science, applied mathematics, physics, and mechanics), education (both
primary and secondary), economics, philosophy, politics, archeology,
anthropology, foreign languages, law and public administration, art and
design.
GETTING THERE
The city has access from the D5 motorway connecting Prague (Praha) with
Germany. Pilsen has very good bus and train connections with the capital
of Prague (it takes about 1 - 1.5 hour to get from Prague to Pilsen).
>From Vaclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG) you can reach Pilsen by frequent
public transport in 1.5 - 2 hours.
ACCOMMODATION
The organising committee has arranged accommodation for reasonable
prices in the angelo Hotel Pilsen, which is situated in the city center
in walking distance from the main railway station and opposite to the
historical entrance of the Pilsner Urquell Brewery. There are a lot of
restaurants in hotel neighbourhood offering specialities of national and
foreign cuisine. Student halls of residence will be also available at
the time of conference.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Ms Anna Habernalova, TSD 2013 Conference Secretary
E-mail: tsd2013 at tsdconference.org
Phone: +420 722 375 005
Fax: +420 377 632 402 - Please, mark the faxed material with capitals
'TSD' on top.
TSD 2013 conference web site: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2013
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